Oracle: The Stone-Drawing Bag

It has been pointed out that writers and sociologists have different definitions of the word "narrative". But the differences are not as great as we might think, and in the last installment of this series I promised to square that circle. Here we go. From the writerly...

The interstellar destination below was created using the DayTrippers Planet Generation rules (now in beta testing). Click here to generate another one. DayTrippers is a Surreal Science Fiction Reality-Hopping OSR RPG. Now available at RPGnow.com.

In books and movies, it’s rare to know the entire history of a character before the actual plot begins. In fact, in many books and movies, the only backstory you ever get occurs in flashbacks, after you’re familiar with the character on a more pedestrian level. The...